Post-game notes

* The Rangers were defeated by the New Jersey Devils, 1-0, tonight at Prudential Center, and are now 31-25-4 overall with a 17-13-1 mark on the road.
* Seventeen of the Rangers’ last 22 games have been decided by one goal, including nine of their last 12 road games.
* Henrik Lundqvist turned aside 27 shots, and is now 23-19-4 overall with a 13-10-1 mark on the road. He has now started in each of the Rangers’ last 29 meetings with the Devils, and has posted a record of 21-9-5 with a 1.85 goals against average, a .937 save percentage and five shutouts in 35 career regular season appearances vs. New Jersey.
* The Rangers are now 16-6-2 vs. the Devils since the start of the 2007-08 season, including an 8-4-1 mark at New Jersey during the stretch, dating back to a 2-0 win on Oct. 25, 2007.
* New York won 25 of 43 faceoffs for a winning percentage of 58%, led by Artem Anisimov’s game-high, 10 faceoff wins in 17 attempts (59%). The Rangers have won 59 of 97 faceoffs for a 61% winning percentage in their last two games, having won 63% of their faceoffs (34-54) last night vs. Los Angeles.
* The Blueshirts’ practice schedule for tomorrow, Feb. 19, is 12:00 p.m. at the MSG Training Center.
* The Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday, Feb. 20, at Madison Square Garden (12:30 p.m.), in an Atlantic Division matinee match-up. The game will be televised live on NBC and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio and newyorkrangers.com.

How many games this season we lost by 1 goal?! We just simple need a one strong, power SCORER, Jagr/Nash/Iginla type. A REAL game changer, kind of unstoppable in decisive games, able time to time individually penetrate blue line and create a havoc in offensive zone by possessing puck and score indeed. Gabby could be an icing on a cake in a team and this team could absolutely do the rest – grind, fight, hold 1 goal difference, etc. Just don’t ask me where to go to meet this guy …

4ever, those guys are few and far between … and expensive. Really, those three albatross contracts — two of which are gone, one still here — has prevented the Rangers from having even a shot at getting one. And the draft record.

Hey, FIRED OLGA! So pathetic is your limited yip. You are just boring, genderless, mule-like, with a split personality, hopeless monotone as always, brain impotent, with occasional, very limited thoughts and words diarrhea. Yawn. Good night.

talk about blowing a chance. Buffalo gets shut out 2 games in a row at home vs teams they should beat. Regier better get someone to start his car. they hate him. the new owner will be firing him for sure

Watching (and freaking myself out in doing so) Ghost Adventure. They’re at this place in CA called Wolfe Manor, that was a family home and sanitorum where a lot of people died. I suggest we lock the team in there for the night. it would scare the holy hell out of them into playing better.

Carp, seriously, the most noteworthy thing about the game was that the Rangers didn’t spend nearly enough time in the Devils zone and Lundqvust was brilliant after a so-so effort last night, IMO. I also thought it was Marc Staal’s worst game of the season. Plenty of mistakes to count by him tonight.

Rangers looked VERY tired – and there was no “zip” in their play – and a few times, I thought that maybe a bit of “Avery-baiting” might have awakened the team a bit, but nobody stepped up to do it…maybe Aves didn’t want to tussle with Kovy or Clarkson, his usual targets…

It would make for one interesting show, that’s for sure. Zak, Nick and Aaron lead the Rangers into there for the night. Which Ranger would run screaming like a little girl? Which Ranger would stand there with the EMF equipment and ask the spirits to talk to him, to touch him, to show themselves? Which Ranger would curl into the fetal postiion and not move the rest of the night?

lol.
well, for one, Drury wouldn’t be part of it. He’d be injured or scratched that night. Dubinsky would probably be all “scrappy” with the spirits…Gaborik would be non-existent…Avery would like the idea that he’s not the only one to “hear voices” anymore, and Callahan would score at least 1 point.

looks like it….. Felton+Chandler+Gallinari+Curry+1st Round Pick for Melo and Billups and a bunch of Nuggets bench players who average 2 points per game. if this deal goes through, i may very well quit watching basketball. this is simply absurd. how dumb can one be?

Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell’s the matter with you? Stupid! We’re all very different people. We’re not Watusi. We’re not Spartans. We’re Americans, with a capital ‘A’, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog. We’re mutts!

not politcally correct but i read somewhere that fighting on the internet is like being in the special olympics..if u dont know the saying look it up… kinda funny
i thought The Waterboy was a pretty funny Sandler movie..
only a one goal game against the trap masters after a tough game last night… not something to jump of a bridge over….

You want funny? Jackie Mason is funny. Don Rickles was funny. Pat Cooper was funny. Foxworthy is funny. Richard Neri was funny. Jackie Gleason was funny. Tim Conway is funny. THEY were the funny ones that will always be remembered.

Dustin Brown fits in on our team even if he doesn’t have the same scoring potential as Gaborik and Gaborik would go with Kopitar. If we can get Brayden Schenn this is a done deal as far as I’m concerned.

I still say its far-fetched they’re going to unload their captain… Sure, teams do it… but, eh… I don’t know. Would I do Grachev & Gaborik for Brown and Schenn…. yes… in a heartbeat. Brown is a very similar player to dubinsky and fits right in w/ our style…

Kings challenge is scoring. Need finishers to play with Kopitar. Gabby would be great fit. Would they give up their Capt and best 2 way forward? I hope, but probably not. I would take shenn and one of those top 4 Dman and find a way to make sal cap work and throw girardi in the mix.

Shatty and Stewart were a fire sale. Both have promise and some downside as well. Stewart could have been special here with right mentors (cally). Shatty may be a more talented mdz. We have struggling offensive minded bu dmen, don’t need another.

From what I’ve seen the devils have a better shot at making the playoffs than the rangers. It’s sickening but if lemaire was the coach from the start of the season the devils once again would be winning the division. it’s the same old garbage for the rangers. The rangers either barely make it in the playoffs and get knocked out in the first round or they barely miss the playoffs. The rangers front office isn’t good enough to find diamonds in the ruff when drafting so the rangers will never draft any great players unless there picking in the top 3.